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'Star Wars: Episode VIII' Delayed By Seven Months (hollywoodreporter.com)
Mr.Intel writes with bad news for those of you champing at the bit to see the next Star Wars movie. Engadget reports: "You'll have to wait a bit longer to see what the heck is up with Luke Skywalker. Disney announced this afternoon that it's delaying Star Wars: Episode VIII from May 26, 2017 by seven months to December 15, 2017. Disney didn't give any reason for the delay, but sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that it'll allow the studio to give the film a Christmas release treatment, which worked pretty well for The Force Awakens. Additionally, it'll give director/writer Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper) more time to work on the film. THR's Borys Kit notes that may include rewrites to focus more on the new class of Star Wars characters."
Because you sell more toys and other merchandise at Christmas time
I am altering the release date.
Pray I do not alter it any further.
Star Wars is an awful franchise. Star Trek is far superior -- better characters, better plots, more imaginative, better writing, etc... Star Wars should cease.
Star Wars is a space opera. Star Trek is more real sci-fi. Both have their purposes, and can co-exist. why do we have to choose?
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I think the box office returns have made their statement, but thanks for your opinion, which, of course, means absolutely nothing.
I liked the new Star Wars film. My family enjoyed it very much.
I look forward to many more movies to come.
Star Wars is a space opera. Star Trek is more real sci-fi.
My phony detector always goes on when someone brings out the "space opera" bullshit. It's like saying: "Under Siege is an action movie. The English Patient is a real movie."
Guess what, one is a subset of the other, so your comparison is just phony and lame.
lucm, indeed.
to dick about with a 3-decade-long complex story by IGNORING THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT is just... well... disappointing.
Maybe you need a refresher about how Star Wars was created. The original stuff that George Lucas wrote was confusing, rambling and boring. It's a bunch of editors (including the guy's wife) and Brian De Palma who carved out of this confusing script the masterpiece that was the first movie.
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lucm, indeed.
Having recently rewatched the prequel trilogy and seen the new movie, I've come to the conclusion that we're wrong about George Lucas. He creates a brilliant setting and is excellent at creating stories and characters. His problem is that he's terrible at dialog and terrible at directing.
They should have let Lucas write the draft for Episode VII and then handed it off to someone else to polish up and then have JJ Abrams direct that.
Yes, that's right, the new Star Wars movie was SO BAD it made me appreciate the Phantom Menace. The story in Phantom Menace was 10 times better than the horror that is the Force Awakens. The acting and visuals were better in the Force Awakens, but who cares? There's more to a movie than flashy visuals.
Give me another Phantom Menace any day rather than something as terrible as the Force Awakens.